And as a Smalltalk programmer from back then, I have to say I'm quite pleased that ObjC didn't die, although it probably came close there. I still have my copy of Brad Cox's book that I bought back when it came out, pre-NeXT days. I prefer the ObjC syntax because it didn't try to seamlessly integrate the object syntax into the original C syntax. I remember going to a technical conference where Andrew Koenig gave an example of a downside to C++ versus straight C.
In C, the statement
varC = varA + varB;
generates a small amount of easily-predicted binary code. In C++, there's no real way of predicting how much binary code is generated by the compiler, and so there's no good way of optimizing the source. Worse, there's no easy way of debugging this kind of statement in C++, given the kinds of things going on in the background. Even worse, the third C++ standard was coming out, and he gave an example of two ways of interpreting part of the standard, that produced very different binaries and thus programs that acted differently, but were both compliant with the standard, and thus "standard C++".
I wish I could have kept the notes, it was a fascinating talk, and reinforced my (mostly kept to myself) opinions about C++.
Christ, does anybody on Slashdot understand that there are use cases other than their own and that what suits them may not suit another person?
Lack of empathy is a pre-requisite for Slashdot commenting.
I can't figure it out, is it a youth thing, or a nerd thing?
I think it's a failed upbringing thing. People aren't taught empathy, and it shows in the coarsening of society I've seen in the past 25 or so years. The Internet and fora like Slashdot show the symptoms, but I blame families and schools for the cause. Coarse behavior cascades, inducing even more coarse behavior. Unfortunately I don't see a correction mechanism on the horizon, so I think we have to get used to it getting worse.
Christ, does anybody on Slashdot understand that there are use cases other than their own and that what suits them may not suit another person?
Lack of empathy is a pre-requisite for Slashdot commenting.
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Exactly right. The excuse that Israel is smaller and has less to protect is bogus, considering that the US has 1/3 of a billion people, which means a larger pool of trainable people than Israel has.
The people who are so paranoid that they demand everyone on the plane they ride in be scoped and groped before they fly, those people need to stay home, because no one else around them is assaulted by the government looking for weapons.
The types of people who want to run your life, want you to be so terrified of your fellow citizen that you won't look to one another for help, you'll run to the nearest government agent first. That gives them the power they crave.
The question seems to be more which language will replace Java and trust of Oracle zeroes out as they kill the language by having clumsy fools trying to monetise it.
I don't know about everybody else, but my money is on Esperanto.
The places that I applied to that listed C++ (I've got about 20 years of experience in it) really wanted people to convert their C++ code to Java for some reason, or else figured that C++ programmers could be good Java programmers because of the language similarity. I have my job because the company had a hard time finding clearable Java programmers, and they tried to hire some older C++ programmers with little Java experience, who could be cleared more easily, and also be made into good members of the Java community at the same time. The jury is still out, as far as I'm concerned a paycheck is a paycheck, and I'll do the best programming I can regardless of the language.
The American public just bought into what the terrorists were selling, and the country will take many years to recover its senses.
Liberty is risky! Freedom is dangerous! Embrace the consequences, because the price is more than fair.
I really wish people would stop saying "America has succumbed to fear!" when in reality it's not the majority of Americans, it's just the elected and unelected officials in the Federal government that have succumbed to fear, the fear of responsibility. Airlines are afraid of being sued into the ground by families of airline-related terror attacks, and so the Government puts these security theatrics in place to allay those fears. Most Americans are now of a mindset to take out anyone who tries to take over a plane, even if it's only because they don't want to be held up from getting to their destination any more than they already are.
We won't get any change in the security theatrics anytime soon, at least not until we start electing adults to the governments, Federal and state.
The study looked at the 55+ age group only. I suspect people with serious health issues and no insurance will have died before reaching 55.
I'm curious to know if they factored in the fact that 55-65+ puts seniors in the UK as having been children in the post-WWII era, where diet wasn't as good or as varied as it is now, which could have had an impact on their later years, not to mention more stressful during early development.
But USA health care is profit oriented, and there is more profit to be made in selling snake oil than there is in treating diseases.
There, fixed that for you. Seriously. I talked to a guy with high blood pressure recently. his doctor wants to put him on drugs, but he's not so sure.
I commented that well over 1/2 of the population doesn't get even the RDA of magnesium in their diet. high blood pressure is usually related to stress, and how can one relax if they don't have enough of the relaxation mineral in their diet?
I'm in nearly in the situation of the man you talked to. I have been measured as having borderline high blood pressure (~130/~80 and lower) and my doctor recently called me to tell me he was (finally? after 6 months?) concerned about it, and that I needed to come in for possible treatment. I have a distrust of doctors as a general rule, even though I go to them, and so I decided to start monitoring it myself. I got one of those cheap wrist cuffs (yes, I know, nothing is better than a "professional" for "real" results) and been checking twice a day, morning when I wake up and before going to bed. Usually when I wake up it's about 110/75, by the end of the day often about 135/80. Yesterday I found a humor web site (damnyouautocorrect.com), read all 8 pages laughing myself hoarse, and checked my blood pressure a few minutes after. Before I read the site, it was about 138/82, a minute after I stopped laughing, it was 112/74. I hate to say it, but in this case laughter really was the best medicine.
If we want to go non-ASCII we could always switch to programming in APL (or maybe ObjectAPL), and have completely unreadable programs. Or else learn to program in Chinese.
"They" didn't "bust the unions", the unions joined "them". The largest unions in the US are government employee unions, like the SEIU and AFSCME. So, since "they" are in charge of printing money and have power, and unions want money and power, it looks to be a match made in somewhere lower than Heaven.
I have the advantage of still having albums from before CDs, and I can't wait till I can afford a good ripping setup. The reason? I have albums that have never been released on CD, and likely won't be. And to hell with the MP3s, those are for my car stereo, for home I'll listen to lossless compressed audio rips. Heh.
Hasn't someone already patented this business model? Unless it's Gibson or Stevens, someone should sue them for patent infringement. $US 10,000,000,000 should do it.
A true Michgander will tell you where they're from by pointing to somewhere on the palm of their right hand. Or the back of their left. I was born down near the base of the thumb.
So, how much more in taxes should she and her husband pay? If they get raises, should they then pay higher rates, because they can afford them? What rate would be fairer for them to pay? And are you aware that allowing the Bush rate cuts to expire means that all rates will go up? And that the AMT will no longer be indexed for inflation, so that several 10's of millions more people will be "rich" enough to have to pay it? And BTW, how much larger rate are you willing to pay, in order to be the good citizen you aspire to be?
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Wow! Why are you people so whiny about this? You are not required to fly. Get over yourselves.
If you're so terrified of flying that you need all of your fellow passengers groped and scoped, you need to stay home and hide under your bed.
And as a Smalltalk programmer from back then, I have to say I'm quite pleased that ObjC didn't die, although it probably came close there. I still have my copy of Brad Cox's book that I bought back when it came out, pre-NeXT days. I prefer the ObjC syntax because it didn't try to seamlessly integrate the object syntax into the original C syntax. I remember going to a technical conference where Andrew Koenig gave an example of a downside to C++ versus straight C.
In C, the statement
varC = varA + varB;
generates a small amount of easily-predicted binary code. In C++, there's no real way of predicting how much binary code is generated by the compiler, and so there's no good way of optimizing the source. Worse, there's no easy way of debugging this kind of statement in C++, given the kinds of things going on in the background. Even worse, the third C++ standard was coming out, and he gave an example of two ways of interpreting part of the standard, that produced very different binaries and thus programs that acted differently, but were both compliant with the standard, and thus "standard C++".
I wish I could have kept the notes, it was a fascinating talk, and reinforced my (mostly kept to myself) opinions about C++.
Christ, does anybody on Slashdot understand that there are use cases other than their own and that what suits them may not suit another person?
Lack of empathy is a pre-requisite for Slashdot commenting.
I can't figure it out, is it a youth thing, or a nerd thing?
I think it's a failed upbringing thing. People aren't taught empathy, and it shows in the coarsening of society I've seen in the past 25 or so years. The Internet and fora like Slashdot show the symptoms, but I blame families and schools for the cause. Coarse behavior cascades, inducing even more coarse behavior. Unfortunately I don't see a correction mechanism on the horizon, so I think we have to get used to it getting worse.
Christ, does anybody on Slashdot understand that there are use cases other than their own and that what suits them may not suit another person?
Lack of empathy is a pre-requisite for Slashdot commenting.
Exactly right. The excuse that Israel is smaller and has less to protect is bogus, considering that the US has 1/3 of a billion people, which means a larger pool of trainable people than Israel has.
The people who are so paranoid that they demand everyone on the plane they ride in be scoped and groped before they fly, those people need to stay home, because no one else around them is assaulted by the government looking for weapons.
The types of people who want to run your life, want you to be so terrified of your fellow citizen that you won't look to one another for help, you'll run to the nearest government agent first. That gives them the power they crave.
The question seems to be more which language will replace Java and trust of Oracle zeroes out as they kill the language by having clumsy fools trying to monetise it.
I don't know about everybody else, but my money is on Esperanto.
tlhIngan Hol!
The places that I applied to that listed C++ (I've got about 20 years of experience in it) really wanted people to convert their C++ code to Java for some reason, or else figured that C++ programmers could be good Java programmers because of the language similarity. I have my job because the company had a hard time finding clearable Java programmers, and they tried to hire some older C++ programmers with little Java experience, who could be cleared more easily, and also be made into good members of the Java community at the same time. The jury is still out, as far as I'm concerned a paycheck is a paycheck, and I'll do the best programming I can regardless of the language.
The American public just bought into what the terrorists were selling, and the country will take many years to recover its senses.
Liberty is risky! Freedom is dangerous! Embrace the consequences, because the price is more than fair.
I really wish people would stop saying "America has succumbed to fear!" when in reality it's not the majority of Americans, it's just the elected and unelected officials in the Federal government that have succumbed to fear, the fear of responsibility. Airlines are afraid of being sued into the ground by families of airline-related terror attacks, and so the Government puts these security theatrics in place to allay those fears. Most Americans are now of a mindset to take out anyone who tries to take over a plane, even if it's only because they don't want to be held up from getting to their destination any more than they already are. We won't get any change in the security theatrics anytime soon, at least not until we start electing adults to the governments, Federal and state.
The study looked at the 55+ age group only. I suspect people with serious health issues and no insurance will have died before reaching 55.
I'm curious to know if they factored in the fact that 55-65+ puts seniors in the UK as having been children in the post-WWII era, where diet wasn't as good or as varied as it is now, which could have had an impact on their later years, not to mention more stressful during early development.
But USA health care is profit oriented, and there is more profit to be made in selling snake oil than there is in treating diseases.
There, fixed that for you. Seriously. I talked to a guy with high blood pressure recently. his doctor wants to put him on drugs, but he's not so sure.
I commented that well over 1/2 of the population doesn't get even the RDA of magnesium in their diet. high blood pressure is usually related to stress, and how can one relax if they don't have enough of the relaxation mineral in their diet?
I'm in nearly in the situation of the man you talked to. I have been measured as having borderline high blood pressure (~130/~80 and lower) and my doctor recently called me to tell me he was (finally? after 6 months?) concerned about it, and that I needed to come in for possible treatment. I have a distrust of doctors as a general rule, even though I go to them, and so I decided to start monitoring it myself. I got one of those cheap wrist cuffs (yes, I know, nothing is better than a "professional" for "real" results) and been checking twice a day, morning when I wake up and before going to bed. Usually when I wake up it's about 110/75, by the end of the day often about 135/80. Yesterday I found a humor web site (damnyouautocorrect.com), read all 8 pages laughing myself hoarse, and checked my blood pressure a few minutes after. Before I read the site, it was about 138/82, a minute after I stopped laughing, it was 112/74. I hate to say it, but in this case laughter really was the best medicine.
If we want to go non-ASCII we could always switch to programming in APL (or maybe ObjectAPL), and have completely unreadable programs. Or else learn to program in Chinese.
*Gasp!* Yoda was a sith!
That would explain a lot...
I know art, I've worked with art, art is a friend of mine. This, sir, is no art.
I'd prefer them to be rare. Endangered, even.
You didn't do shit when they busted the unions.
"They" didn't "bust the unions", the unions joined "them". The largest unions in the US are government employee unions, like the SEIU and AFSCME. So, since "they" are in charge of printing money and have power, and unions want money and power, it looks to be a match made in somewhere lower than Heaven.
Everyone wants someone's money.
I have the advantage of still having albums from before CDs, and I can't wait till I can afford a good ripping setup. The reason? I have albums that have never been released on CD, and likely won't be. And to hell with the MP3s, those are for my car stereo, for home I'll listen to lossless compressed audio rips. Heh.
Wow. Praising with damned feints. Impressive.
drann drann?
duran duran? - Is she hiding something?
That she's hungry like the wolf?
Well, apparently he's decided not to go ahead with it, after a "visit" from the FBI
Hasn't someone already patented this business model? Unless it's Gibson or Stevens, someone should sue them for patent infringement. $US 10,000,000,000 should do it.
"You Know Reid, Why Not Try Angle?"
A true Michgander will tell you where they're from by pointing to somewhere on the palm of their right hand. Or the back of their left. I was born down near the base of the thumb.
So, how much more in taxes should she and her husband pay? If they get raises, should they then pay higher rates, because they can afford them? What rate would be fairer for them to pay? And are you aware that allowing the Bush rate cuts to expire means that all rates will go up? And that the AMT will no longer be indexed for inflation, so that several 10's of millions more people will be "rich" enough to have to pay it? And BTW, how much larger rate are you willing to pay, in order to be the good citizen you aspire to be?
Yeah, letting people who don't make much to begin with, keep more of their take-home pay, how horrible.